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…oor of the arena is ridged like a grating of lapis lazuli. And it is full of pure quicksilver. Above the altar is a veiled Figure, whose name is Pan. Those in the outer tier adore him as a Man; and in the next tier they adore him as a Goat; and in the next tier they adore him as a Ram; and in the next tier they adore him as a Crab; 66
…n shrill excitement, ‘‘ Look here, Cockie, this isn’t snow.” I ought to explain that she calls me Cockie in allusion to the fact that my name is Peter. I came out of my trance. I looked at the stuff with what I imagine to have been a dull, glazed eye. Then my old training came to my rescue. It was a white powder with a tendency to form little lumps rather like chalk. I rubbed it between my finger and thumb. I smelt it. That told me nothing. I ‘tasted it. That told me nothing, either, because the nerves of my tongue were entirely anezsthetised b…
… traveller. His smartness had an element of commonness very well marked. I instinctively knew that he would prefer me not to mention his name. At this moment the train began to move, and we had to hop on. We went at once to his compartment. It was a coupé, and he was its sole occupant. I have already described the shock which the re- appearance of Feccles had administered to my nerves. Normally, I should have felt very awkward indeed, but the cocaine lifted me easily over the fence. The incident became welcome; an additional adven- ture in the …
…! The stupid coincidence angered me, and yet some irresistible instinct compelled me to take out my notebook and pencil and jot down the name written over the gate --- Villa Caldarazzo. Idly, I added up the letters 6 + 10 + 30 + 30 + 1 and 20 + 1 + 30 + 4 + 1 + 200 + 1 + 7 + 7 + 70. Their sum struck me like a bullet in my brain. It was 418, the number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerical hieroglyph of the Great Work! Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which mi…
…hill spells of fever. But neither of these give much idea of the nature of the cold produced by abstinence. Our poet, whoever he is (his name is not given in the magazine) certainly succeeds in conveying to his reader the truth, that is, provided his reader already knows it. I can’t imagine how it would strike any one who had not experienced it. For he conveys his meaning, so to speak, in spite of the words. This business of expression is very curious. How could one describe, say, a love affair to a person who had never had one or imagined one …
…hen in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature; fatal is her name! It fitteth not thy Body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Démons, dog-faced, that show no mortal sign Of Truth, but dese…
…is holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A .\ A whose name is Truth. 8. Now in this is the magical power known. 9. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea- captain. 10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also ! 12. Let the Magus act thus in his conjuration. 13. Let him sit and conjure3 let him draw himself together…
…thought, and drink of the poison of life. Fifty are the gates of understanding, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death . (The Vision and the Voice, 14th Aethyr) And for his Work thereafter? So we enter the earth, and there is a veiled figure, in absolute darkness. Yet it is perfectly possible to see in it, so 1. I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word.
… would acquiesce in any reasonable suggestion. "I am informed that you are — or were — a Priest of the Roman Church. "Peter is my middle name," admitted the 'Rosicrucian,' "and that's no jolly." "But — apart from questions of nomenclature for the moment, if you will pardon me — you are a priest of the Roman Church?" "Yep: I took a chance on Pop Dago Benedict. But it's a con game; I'm from Missouri. Four-flushing gold brick merchants! Believe me, some bull! I took it like playing three days in Bumville. Them boobs got my goat for fair, babe. No …
…The train had jolted out of the station and the porter had faded from the landscape. A deserted spot, re- marked the Englishman, whose name was Bevan, espe-
…he Law of Thelema. In Her is the equal Development and Disposition of the Forces of Nature, each in its Balanced Strength; also Her True Name has the Digamma for Phi, and endeth in Upsilon, not in Xi, so that Her Orthography is S#inu whose Numer-ation is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. For the Root thereof is S#, which signifieth the Incarnation of the Spirit; and of Kin are not only the Sun, Our Father, but Sumer, where Man knew himself Man, and Soma, the Divine Potion that giveth Men Enlightenment, and Scin, Light Astral, and Scire also,…
…other cattle, and exterminating the vermin which infect it? 19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. Commentary: The reference appears to be to the old prophe cies of Daniel and John.1 The first Qabalistic allusion is yet (An. xiv, O in VS [Dec.-Jan., 1918-19 e.v.]) undiscovered. 1 [Crowley probably meant Matthew 24:15 or Mark 13:14, as this ref erence does not occur in John; see also Daniel 8:13, 11:31 and 12:11.] An. xvii, O in [Sept.-Oct., 1921 E.v.]. I think it proper …
…chic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida. By a simila…
…way in which nothing remains, an end.+ Soon however, under Mah4yana-Buddhism, was the Atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of Amitabha, or that Source of all Light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the Bodhi that he becomes a Buddha. “ Amitabha,” so Paul Carus informs us, “is the final norm of wisdom and of morality+ (séc), the standard of truth and of righteousness, the ultimate vazsou a’étre of the Cosmic Order.” This of course is “bosh.” AmitAbha, as the Atman, is “the light which shines there beyond the heaven…
…chic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida. By a simila…
…way in which nothing remains, an end.+ Soon however, under Mah4yana-Buddhism, was the Atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of Amitabha, or that Source of all Light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the Bodhi that he becomes a Buddha. “ Amitabha,” so Paul Carus informs us, “is the final norm of wisdom and of morality+ (séc), the standard of truth and of righteousness, the ultimate vazsou a’étre of the Cosmic Order.” This of course is “bosh.” AmitAbha, as the Atman, is “the light which shines there beyond the heaven…
Below the Brutes QOL name. The sight of it drove me almost insane with desire. Within a yard of my face was the symbol of victory. Cockie, Basil, the law, my own physical pangs :— they were allin my power from the moment my fingers closed over the bottle. I put out my hand; but the heroin had disappeared in the manner of a conjuring trick. McCall leant his weight on the back of my chair afd tilted it slightly. His ugly shrewd false face was within a foot of mine. “Will you really let me have that?” I faltered. “ Sir Peter’s very rich. We can af…
His name, he approaches the solution of the ultimate problem, Who he himself truly is. Unto this final statement the Adept may trust his Angel to lead him; for the Tiphereth-consciousness alone is connected by paths with the various parts of his mind. 1 None therefore save He hath the knowledge requisite for calculating the combinations of conduct which will organise and equilibrate the forces of the Adept, against the moment when it becomes necessary to confront the Abyss. The Adept must control a compact and cohérent mass if he is to make sur…
…hey were opposed by the "nominalists," who said, to the contrary, that "greenness" or "a pig" were nothing in themselves; they were mere names (nominalism from Lat. nomen, a name) invented for convenience of grouping. This doctrine is plain commonsense, and I shall waste no time in demolishing the realists. All a priori thinking, the worst kind of thinking, goes with "realism" in this sense.
…ok of Lies devotes one chapter to this symbol. WaratahBlossom Seven are the veils of the dancing‐girl in the harem of IT. Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside Her bed. Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine‐cup are seven streams of the blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of an Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a…